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APLODRS RUBIVORA. X. Sp. Larva Averagi- length 0.80 inch [= 20 mm ]. Color 

 light yellowish-gray, darker just behind each joint, and very minutely shagreeued all 

 over. On each segment a prominent pointed straight projection each side of dorsuiu, 

 and several minor warts and prickles below. Two very slightly raised, longitudinal 

 lighter lines along dorsmn, between the prominent prickles. Ten legs. 



.Perfect in sect Alar expanse 0.50 iueh[=12.5" lm ] ; length of body 0/25 inch [=6 mm ]. 

 Color verdigris-green, the scales being sparse so that the wings appear sub-hyaline. 

 Fore- wings with two transverse lighter lines dividing the wing into three parts, pro- 

 portionate in width as 3, 4, 2 counting from base, and parallel with posterior margin ; 

 also a faint line between these two, running to about J of wing from costa. Hind 

 wings with two similar transverse lines, dividing the wing in like proportion, the outer 

 line not parallel with margin, but wavy and produced posteriorly near its middle. 

 Costa pale ; fringes obsolete. Head, thorax and abdomen green above, but, together 

 with antenna 1 and palpi, white beneath. 



Described from one 9 specimen. [First Rept., pp. 139-140. PL II, Fig. 25. 



Dr. Packard, in his Monograph of the Geoiuetred Moths, etc. (TJ. S. 

 Geol. Surr. of Terr., Vol. X, 1870, p. 332), refers it to the genus Synchlora 

 Gor., and adds the conventional ending to the specific name, so that the 

 species becomes Synclilora rubivomria. Synclilora albolineataP&ck. and 

 Eunemoria gracilaria Pack, are given as synonyms. 



PHYCITA [ACROBASIS] XEBULO, Walsh Imago. I reproduce here the description of 

 the moth in Mr. Walsh's original words : " Expansion of wings 7-10. Length of body 

 3-10. General color light cinereous, varied with dusky. A row of about seven sub- 

 seuiilnnar or linear dark spots on outer margin of fore wing. Then one-fourth of the 

 distance to the body a waving light cinereous baud parallel to the exterior margin, 

 mai'ked on each side with dusky black. Nearly at the centre a much abbreviated black 

 band. Beyond the centre on the costal margin a subtriaugular dusky black spot, the 

 apex of which connects with the apex of a much larger subobsolete triangular brick- 

 red spot which extends to the interior margin, and is bounded on the outside by a wavy 

 light cinereous band, which is again bounded by a wavy dusky black baud proceeding 

 from the apex of the costal triangle. Base of wing dusky black, inclosing a small 

 round light cinereous spot. Hind wings and all beneath light cinereous shaded with 

 dusky, the fore wings darker. Tarsi dusky with a narrow light cinereous fascia at the 

 apex of each joint. Hind tibia fasciate with dusky at the apex, sometimes obscurely 

 bifasciate. Intermediate tibia fasciate with dusky at the centre, the fascia generally 

 extending to the base, but becoming lighter. Anterior tibia dusky, with a narrow 

 apical light cinereous fascia. Palpi, both labial and maxillary, dusky." 



When compared with other closely allied and resembling species, this little moth 

 may be characterized in the following manner: The ground color of the front wing is 

 decidedly bright and pale ; the discal spots are almost always confluent, thus forming 

 an abbreviated transverse bar ; the dark markings are well denned and the triangular 

 dark costal spots starting from the inner third of the wing is distinctly relieved, while 

 the " brick-red" (nearer a cinnamon-brown) triangular spot which opposes it is large, 

 so that the space it occupies on the inner margin is nearly as wide (generally within 

 one-third) as that between it and the transverse posterior line. The lower half of the 

 basal space is often of a distinct cinn'amon-browu. and an oblique dusky band, which 

 Mr. Walsh has not mentioned, is often quite distinct, running from near the apex to 

 the brown triangle, where it connects with the inner margin. The species recalls, in 

 facies, the European Hyelois suavella. In a suite of specimens bred from Apple, Quince, 

 Plum and Cherry, there is sufficient variation to prevent a too rigidly drawn descrip- 

 tion, but the above characters obtain in all of them, and such variation as occurs 

 runs in the direction of the variety presently to be described. 



Larva [Length 0.5 inch] Brown or greenish in color. Cylindrical. ^Tapering grad- 



